We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Both terrorism and insurance sell fear -- and business is business

Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.